MRAC: Arts Impact for Individuals

About This Program

The Arts Impact for Individuals grant program provides up to $5,000 for artistic projects in Minnesota led by individuals. Projects must be focused on creating access to the arts for Minnesotans, and/or engaging with Minnesota communities through artistic endeavors. Proposed projects could include:

• Connecting Minnesotans with participation in arts and cultural experiences; and/or
• Integrating artists and/or artistic engagement to accomplish a community’s non-arts goals; and/or
• Providing Minnesotans with opportunities for arts learning and passing along expressive cultural traditions.

Community members, rather than the applicant, must be the primary beneficiary of project activities. At least three (3) Minnesotans other than the applicant must participate in the project. Projects primarily focused on developing the applicant’s own needs and creative interests are not a good fit with this program.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• This grant program is open to individuals who identify as any of the following:
  • Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color (BIPOC); and/or
  • Disabled/a person with a disability; and/or
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual/agender, or Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+)
  • Individuals must have a primary residential address in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington county for at least the six months prior to the application deadline, and be a United States citizen or an individual who has attained permanent resident status in the United States.
  • Awardees must also continue to reside in this region for the entirety of the project period.
  • Grant awards in this program are made only to the individual applicant, who must have primary responsibility for managing the proposed project.
  • Individuals do not need prior artistic experience or to identify as an artist to apply.

Ineligibility

• Entities such as nonprofits, for-profits, schools, and fiscally sponsored organizations may not apply in this program.